Time consumed

[Mark]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Kaushal Shriyan
<kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> real    0m2.941s
>> user    0m0.028s
>> sys     0m0.020s
>>
> Hi Alan
>
> Thanks Alan,
>
> What does real,user and sys mean in the above output.
>

Now let's think about this for a minute: if one does not know what the
output of a command on the system means, what is the first, best
resource to check?

(Hint: it's not the web....)